Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.
I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
I reluctantly concluded that there was no way for me to help bring into being the Muslim culture I'd dreamed of, the progressive, irreverent, skeptical, argumentative, playful and unafraid culture which is what I've always understood as freedom. . . . Actually Existing Islam. . . which makes literalism a weapon and redescription a crime, will never let the likes of me in.
Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.
To say a prayer doesn't take more than a minute, but you need the discipline to do it.
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction